So this weekend my housemates and I went on another adventure with the walkabout club. It started out with a drive up to Crystal Cascades, which is a progression of water holes up in the rainforest connected by a very small river, and it just so happens to be one of the only places with water where there has never been a crocodile spotting. Our guide Tony taught us how to make “damper”, or bush bread. It’s one cup of flower, three pinches of salt, three pinches of sugar and a third of a cup or water or beer, and then you can throw whatever else you want in it. Then you wrap it in foil that has been sprayed on the inside with Pam and wrap it up with an “s-curve” and throw it on a barbeque or in an oven and turn it every couple minutes. It was so delicious! We put butter and jam on it and it’s definitely going to be a staple in our house now. Then we drove up to Kurunda, where we had been before on the skyrail, but this time we made sure to wander off the main street. We went to the old markets and the Heritage markets and stopped in the candy store to watch demonstrations for about 20 minutes. Finally we stopped quickly at our favorite Coles to grab stuff for the BBQ and drive up to Ellis Beach. We had about an hour of wandering around on the beach before we had to make dinner. We made chicken thighs and put them in buns with a bunch of salad. For the first time we got to experience the public barbeques in Australia. They are great but at dinner it gets really crowded and everyone is a bit hungry and grumpy but somehow it all remained civil. We ate out dinner out on the beach by moonlight. We went to bed early to make sure we could get up early to see the sunrise.
We woke up the next morning after a rather uncomfortable night on the ground to see the sunrise. It was extremely beautiful. They drove us to Trinity Beach to spot dolphins and eat breakfast. We didn’t see any until after a breakfast of eggs and bacon and bread and nutella. We then packed up and drove to Port Douglas. We wandered through the Sunday Markets and made our way to Four Mile Beach, picking up an ice cream along the way of course. Four Mile Beach is an amazingly flat beach of white sand, and although it was very crowded we were able to find our own little area to lie out. The water was wonderful and we ventured over some rocks and found some very cool tide pools. We had about three hours of hanging around the beach before we jumped in the van for the drive back. On the drive we saw wallabies in the wild, because their habitat has been taken away by housing complexes they now graze on grass in horse pastures, which is pretty cute. Then, just as we thought it was going to be a rather uneventful weekend in the aviary category, we saw a kookaburra! It had bright blue wings and a rusty tail, which means it was a female. And just when we thought it couldn’t get any more “wild kingdom” our guide George informed us that if it was low tide we may just see a crocodile. Considering that this was the man that told me to stop eating nutella or I would become as dark as him, I didn’t exactly believe him, but as we drove over a bridge there they were! Three rather large “salties” were sunning themselves on the bank of the river. It was a pretty exciting weekend, even thought it was a bit exhausting. We got home in the late afternoon and made dinner and tried to comprehend that we had a full day of school the next day.
Yoga at sunrise, good way to try to fix your back after a night on the ground.
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